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Saito M. 2000. Symbiotic exchange of nutrients in arbuscular mycorrhizas: transport and transfer of phosphorus, pp. 85-106. In: Arbuscular mycorrhizas: physiology and function. Eds: Y Kapulnick and DD Douds Jr. Kluwer Academic Press.
The most common benefit host plants receive form arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi is enhanced phosphorus nutrition. Important aspects of this process: P metabolism in the fungus, cytological and enzymological factors involved in transport, and what is known about the mechanism and location of transfer to host cells are summarized. Finally a model is proposed which synthesizes these data to describe the flow of P from soil, though the AM fungus, to the rot cortical cell.
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